About Ahmed Bilal

November would see Arsenal and frustrate in the league and dazzle in the Carling Cup while Tottenham did pretty much the same, knocking out Liverpool in the process. Outside England we saw Bayern Munich announcing plans for an academy in … Read More→

December was notable for managerial changes as clubs prepared for the January transfer window and their chance to save their seasons. Real Madrid sacked Schuster and replaced him with Ramos, Blackburn fired Paul Ince and brought in Sam Allardyce while … Read More→

October saw the economic crisis hit the Premier League, with several football club owners suffering losses to their financial assets. Each club would deal with this differently – West Ham had already sold off players in the summer to reduce … Read More→

August saw the usual pre-season predictions doing the rounds, with the major discussion in Spain surrounding Barcelona’s transfer spending and Madrid’s chase of Ronaldo and subsequent treatment of Robinho. Liverpool found it impossible to get funding for Stanley Park, meaning … Read More→

June kicked off with a bang, literally – Jose Mourinho signed on as Inter Milan manager and Ronaldo, fresh from doing the league and european double with Manchester United, publicly admitted in an interview that he wanted to play for … Read More→

While Manchester United and Chelsea were headed to Moscow (and to a last-day title decider) and Liverpool were after Barry, Arsenal and Tottenham were both looking across Europe for an experienced midfielder to shore up the squad.

April is, amongst other things, time for April Fools Day and this year saw Soccerlens pull out some really crazy ideas out of the hat, from a Manchester United orgy to various club takeovers. I wish I had predicted Abu … Read More→

February marked the beginning of several storylines for 2008 as well as the beginning of the end of for a few teams and managers. In purely footballing terms though, Egypt stole the headlines with a memorable triumph at the 2008 … Read More→

With Arsenal, Manchester United and Chelsea squaring off for the Premier League title race, the press were hailing the 2007/2008 as the most exciting, most unpredictable season of football they’d ever seen.